Women’s Individual Asset Ownership and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From 28 International Surveys

Peterman, Amber; Pereira, Audrey; Bleck, Jennifer; Palermo, Tia; Yount, Kathryn M.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2017.303694

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“…14 None of the existing multi-country studies examined emotional violence, and all of them aggregated physical and sexual violence into a single measure of violence. The single measure of SES in Peterman et al (2017) was asset ownership (defined as yes/no). Alesina et al (2016) and Cools and Kotsadam (2017) exclusively studied countries in Africa.…”

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Socio‐economic Status, Demographic Characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence

Wilson

2019

J of Intl Development

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One in three ever‐partnered women worldwide has experienced intimate partner violence (IPV), yet there is little systematic global evidence on the association between socio‐economic status (SES), demographic characteristics and IPV. This paper uses information from more than one‐quarter of one million female respondents age 15–49 in IPV modules from 36 Demographic and Health Surveys to provide detailed evidence on IPV gradients around the developing world. The analysis reveals relatively large negative IPV–SES gradients for respondent years of schooling and household wealth. Marriage and higher age are generally associated with lower IPV, whereas the physical violence–age profile follows an inverted U‐shape. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Socio‐economic Status, Demographic Characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence

Wilson

2019

J of Intl Development

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“…In contrast, studies on household assets and their association to IPV have found mixed results [ 9 ]. Most recently an analysis of 28 Demographic Health Surveillance (DHS) studies found that in three countries women’s ownership of assets were protective of IPV, in five countries women’s ownership of assets increased IPV, and in the others had no impact on IPV [ 10 ]. However, in Vietnam a study showed that it was women’s ability to assert control over assets (i.e decide on an assets use, rather than necessarily ownership) that made assets protective for IPV [ 11 ].…”

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Associations between poverty, mental health and substance use, gender power, and intimate partner violence amongst young (18-30) women and men in urban informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study and structural equation model

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Research suggests that poverty is a key driver of intimate partner violence (IPV), however detailed analysis suggests that this relationship is not clear, either for women’s experience or men’s perpetration of IPV. We explored associations between poverty and IPV using cross-sectional data from the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures cluster randomized control trial, in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa, with young (18–30) people. Using logistic regression and structural equation modelling we assess associations between poverty and women’s experience and men’s perpetration of physical and/or sexual IPV in the past 12 months. 680 women and 677 men were recruited into the study between September 2015 and September 2016. The analyses highlight how specific forms or measures of poverty intersecting with gender identities shape IPV. For men we found indicators of economic provision were associated with IPV perpetration, while for women food-insecurity was key to IPV experience. We also found similarities between women and men. First, food-insecurity and childhood traumas shaped pathways to substance misuse and poor mental health that increased IPV. Second, there was a resilience pathway in both models, whereby those with more education had increased gender equitable attitudes and fewer controlling behaviours, which reduced IPV. Interventions to reduce IPV need to work to reduce household food insecurity, but these need to be combined with gender transformative interventions. Interventions should also focus on reducing the impact of mental health and substance misuse. Finally, working to increase educational attainment is a long-term critical intervention to reduce IPV.Trial registration: NCT03022370. Registered 13 January 2017, retrospectively registered.

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“…The strength of risk factors for IPV are likely to differ by country of residence (e.g., internalizing problems) [40], as well as by stage of the transition to adulthood. Extreme poverty, for example, is one of the most important determinants of IPV victimization among young girls in some settings [e.g., 41], though not in others [42]. These theoretical perspectives, however, often lead to very different intervention approaches.…”

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Emerging partner violence among young adolescents in a low-income country: Perpetration, victimization and adversity

Kidman

Kohler

2020

PLoS ONE

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Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent in high-as well as low-income contexts. It results in a substantial public health burden and significant negative socioeconomic and health outcomes throughout the life-course. However, limited knowledge exists about IPV during early adolescence. This period is critical during the transition to adulthood for at least two reasons: it is when the majority of adolescents in low-income countries first encounter dating, sexuality and partnerships, often with older adolescents or adults, and it is also the period when lifelong patterns of violence and norms about acceptable IPV are formed. The current study is one of the first to measure IPV prevalence among young adolescents in a low-income setting, examine the potential etiology, and investigate relationships with gender ideology, poverty, mental health and childhood adversity. Methods We surveyed 2,089 adolescents aged 10-16 in Malawi using standardized instruments. We estimated the prevalence of IPV, and use multivariate logistic regression to test potential correlates. Results More than a quarter (27%) of ever-partnered adolescents in Malawi report being victimized. A substantial proportion of both male and female adolescents (15%) report committing violence against their partner. Girls were more likely than boys to report being a victim of sexual IPV (24% versus 8%), and boys more likely to perpetrate such (9% versus 1%). Almost 10% of the sample had both committed and been a victim of IPV. Cumulative childhood adversity (e.g., physical abuse, witnessing domestic violence) was a consistent and strong correlate of IPV victimization (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.30) and of perpetration (aOR 1.35). Depression and PTSD were likewise associated with IPV victimization in the overall sample.

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Women’s Individual Asset Ownership and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From 28 International Surveys

Abstract: Results suggest that the relationship between women's asset ownership and IPV is highly context specific. Additional methodologies and data are needed to identify causality, and to understand how asset ownership differs from other types of women's economic empowerment.

Cited by 52 publications

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Socio‐economic Status, Demographic Characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence

Socio‐economic Status, Demographic Characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence

Associations between poverty, mental health and substance use, gender power, and intimate partner violence amongst young (18-30) women and men in urban informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study and structural equation model

Emerging partner violence among young adolescents in a low-income country: Perpetration, victimization and adversity

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